> > > Alex, age 8, made the comment that funerals are boring. So his grandmother asked him if he had ever been to a funeral. He said that he had and when she asked whose funeral it was, he replied, "Yours."
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> > > This all goes back to that anniversary party that was held for us in a funeral home, because we had been married, a long time ago, in the chapel of a funeral home. He smoothed it over a bit by saying that it was boring only part of the time.
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> > > I guess since that's where it was, in an 8-year-old mind, that was a funeral.
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> > > Grandma and Grandpa both managed to keep a straight face, but it wasn't easy.
> > > Howard
> >
> > I guess you need to put the "fun" back into "funeral", then.
> >
> > (grins, ducks and runs)
> >
> > Sorry, I just had to get a chance to say that.
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> That's OK. I recently went to my uncle's funeral and saw a bunch of my cousins that I don't see very often. It was like we were kids again. We laughed and joked and kidded. It was fun. Even the minister cracked a joke or two about Uncle John, who was a very good-natured guy.
> Howard

I just noticed a slight error in that subject line. It's just a typo. I really know how to spell funeral.
Howard